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02-01-2011, 01:19 PM
| | New Member | | Join Date: Jan 2011
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| | | New to wild birds!
Hi everyone
Yesterday we bought a birdfeeder and put it outside in the afternoon with peanust, mixed seed, fat balls and water and we are both quite astonished at what we have seen so far. Using the pictures on this website we have identified blue tits, great tits, coal tits, one robin on the seed tray and this morning suddenly five tiny birds with very long tails and black and white striped heads all flocked to the fat balls at the same time. I have not idea what these birds are so if anyone has any ideas I would really appreciate your help. Then there is another bird as big as the great tit but with a dark grey sweeping colouring right over the top of the head and down the back and wings with a pinky light brown underneath. It 'pecks' at the seed feeder like a woodpecker and again I have no idea what it is - any ideas?
As you can see from the above I am totally hooked and all chores postponed whilst I gawp out of the window. I have never seen this many wild birds this close up! I must stress I am a complete novice but I am thoroughly enjoying our new toy and look forward to any advice or comments   |
02-01-2011, 01:25 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Lincolnshire
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| | | Re: New to wild birds!
Welcome
The small birds with long tails are long-tailed tits - great description of these lovely little birds. The other bird could possibly be a chaffinch. |
02-01-2011, 02:05 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: n.e.somerset
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| | | Re: New to wild birds!
Welcome to the site.Nice to have the birds visit so soon . Especially the Long Tailed Tits.
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02-01-2011, 02:17 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Aviemore
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| | | Re: New to wild birds!
Welcome to WAB, as you are finding out it's amazing what birds you can see in your own garden.
I agree with Nutmeg, the 1st birds you describe sound like Long-tailed Tits and the others sound like Chaffinches.
Regards, Audrey. |
02-01-2011, 02:28 PM
| | New Member | | Join Date: Jan 2011
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| | | Re: New to wild birds!
Well thankyou all for your quick replies! After checking the pictures on here you are all right and they are long tailed tits and we have seven of them on our fat balls right now! After much searching (I could get obsessive about this) the other bird is a wood nuthatch! We are out in the Warwickshire/Leicestershire countryside right next to very old woodland so maybe that is why we have been so lucky.
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